A Harrison couple hope surveillance video will help police identify the two men that held them at gunpoint while trying to rob them inside their car.

Dan and Elizabeth did not want to use their last names for this story. The parents of 8-month-old Brooklyn spent the last two days with her at Cincinnati Children's Hospital for a severe case of bronchitis.

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They were out looking for a place to eat Monday night when two men got into the back seat of their car at the corner of Gilbert Avenue and Rogers Place.

"Next thing I know, there's a guy in the back of my car. He grabs me by the back of my head and holds my head back and then I felt the cold gun up to the back of my head. Then I just started crying hysterically," Elizabeth said.

Dan, Elizabeth's boyfriend, said the men wanted money and jewelry. After giving them $20, Elizabeth handed them her wallet so they could use her ATM card. Together they drove to a nearby PNC Bank.

"He's asking for our code and he's typing it in and it's saying our balance is 68 cents because, you know, there was nothing on the card," Dan said.

Elizabeth had spent the remaining money in her account on Christmas presents for Brooklyn and her two older children.

While in the car, Dan was able to secretly dial 911 and was directing Elizabeth where to drive to tell dispatchers where they were.

"I just kept telling them to go to that UDF by McDonald's. What's that street called, Burnet or something? I was trying to say that and probably said it like 10 times to let the 911 dispatchers know that's where we were going to be," Dan said.

The couple ended up at the United Dairy Farmers on Burnet Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

According to the victims, one of the suspects took Dan inside while the other kept Elizabeth at gun point inside the car.

Again, the ATM card did not work because there was nothing left in Elizabeth's account. Dan told WLWT News 5 that on his way out of UDF, he was able to walk ahead of the suspect, open the driver's door, pull his girlfriend out, grab the car keys and hit the car alarm.

Dan said both suspects ran away from the scene and the police arrived shortly after.

"I want everybody who drives to Cincinnati and lives around there to keep your doors locked at all times because you never know. It was dark. We didn't see them coming," Elizabeth said.

Cincinnati police are investigating, but have not released any surveillance videos or pictures of the suspects.